Laughter of despair
How much political folly can we stomach? asks Christopher Bigsby
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Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, by Simon Blackburn
Shahidha Bari delights in a lucid and graceful philosophical probing of self-consciousness
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Smile...you’re on NSS
We have endeavoured over the past few weeks to provide guidelines for all those academic members of staff who wish to influence the results of the current National Student Survey in a manner that...
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Discard the student caricatures
Negative assumptions about undergraduates distract from the debate over the responsibilities of educators, says Sarah Moore
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Zero hours, infinite anxiety
The perils of life on a contract with no guarantee of work
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World in brief - 13 March 2014
United StatesBright ideas on the blockA US university is to auction off some of its intellectual property licences. Successful bidders will obtain licensing rights to patents derived from research...
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Grant winners - 13 March 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Sue HartleyInstitution: University of YorkValue: £313,008Establishing biofumigation as a sustainable replacement to...
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THE Scholarly Web - 13 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Michael Rosen
We speak to the professor of children’s literature at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lance Davis, 1928-2014
A pioneering economic historian, whose work examined everything from banking and imperialism to whaling, has died
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News in brief - 13 March 2014
Financial healthDark clouds on horizonSlowing growth in international student numbers could have “a material impact on the sector”, along with looming pension liabilities. Those are among the...
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Short and sweet
Open letter to Georgina Edsel, Deputy Head of Brand Management, Poppleton UniversityI feel I must write and say how grateful we are for your help in publicising our decision to simplify our name. I...
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Collegial distinctions
Re: “Durham’s colleges fear changes will downgrade them to halls of residence”, News, February). This has been a bone of contention for 40 years. It’s time the university differentiated itself...
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Fit to judge in the REF?
The feature “The REF: how was it for you?” ( February) reports: “Typically, heads of research say that their institutions did this [assessed the quality of research produced by staff] by using a...